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Mozambique invites Sekuru Nyangatayani for independence celebrations
The ruling party of Mozambique FRELIMO, has invited popular Glendale-based Zimbabwean traditional healer Peter "Sekuru Nyangatayani " Chingudzi for independence celebrations in Gema District, Mozambique, on Wednesday. The traditional healer...

Rwanda Security Force joins Mozambicans for independence celebrations

Lukashenko 'dynamite' By Mozambique President
5 Daniel Chapu Photo: Reuters The dictator calls him to Belarus three years in a row. Lukashenko confirmed the readiness to receive the president of Mozambique Daniel Francisco Chapa in Minsk or to visit Maputo on an official visit for...

Marcelo sees Mozambique “looking to the future”. Chapo comes to Lisbon
“Satisfied to see a country looking to the future, with a climate aiming for economic and social development, financial progress, justice, and consequently political and institutional stability,” remarked President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa upon...

Islamic State Group Attacks Bring ‘New Reality’ to Mozambique Reserve
At more than 42,000 square kilometers, Niassa Special Reserve is the largest protected area in Mozambique and holds the most wildlife of anywhere in the country. In an area bigger than Switzerland, elephants, buffalo, wild dogs and one of the...

Doha Film Institute Gets Behind Upcoming Movies By Cyril Aris, Ahmed Yassin Al-Daradji & Danielle Arbid In Spring Funding Round
The Doha Film Institute (DFI) has unveiled the recipients of its 2025 Spring Grants cycle backing 45 projects across all formats with directors hailing from 35 territories. The feature film grantees include Lebanese director Cyril Aris’ A Sad and...

Mozambique sees “extraordinary” relations with Portugal and dismisses reparations
“I think at this moment we have to focus on this level of cooperation, which must become increasingly solid, because we believe that economic, social, political, and environmental cooperation is extremely important between the two countries,...

Intrepid reveals second ‘Uncharted’ mystery trip after 1K applicants applied for first round
Dubbed ‘The Uncharted Expedition‘, the 14-day trip will begin in Harare, Zimbabwe and end in Ilha de Mozambique with everything in between a total mystery for travellers. The nitty gritty Running from 12–25 August 2026 and capped at just 21...

Cinema in Mozambique “remains alive, but with some wounds”
The Mozambican filmmaker, born in the city of Beira, discussed the Mozambican film industry during an interview regarding the premiere of his latest project in Portugal, set for June 26: the film ‘O Ancoradouro do Tempo’, an adaptation of Mia...

Mozambican kidnapping kingpin tracked to Fourways, killed in shoot-out
With around 170 kidnapping-linked arrests made and R1.2m recovered since March 2024, the latest success saw a dramatic police anti-kidnapping operation unfold in Fourways this week, resulting in the fatal shooting of a wanted Mozambican fugitive...
Record 769 arrests and USD 65 million in illicit pharmaceuticals seized in global bust
SINGAPORE – An INTERPOL-coordinated operation across 90 countries has resulted in the seizure of 50.4 million doses of illicit pharmaceuticals worth USD 65 million, highlighting the alarming scale of the global trade in unapproved and counterfeit...
Can Zimbabwe journalists be trusted to fearlessly investigate and expose high-level corruption?
Tendai Ruben Mbofana The ongoing training workshops by the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) are certainly commendable. They tackle the vital issue of corruption and illicit financial flows under the theme “Power of the Pen: Investigating...
FIFA once again deals with New World TV for World Cup and WWC rights
New World TV (NWTV), the Togo-based satellite television network operating across sub-Saharan Africa, has snapped up rights to soccer's next two FIFA World Cups – one men's edition and one women's. Both the men's 2026 World Cup (to be held across...

TotalEnergies CEO anticipates Mozambique LNG project will resume 'this summer'
TotalEnergies expects its $20bn Mozambique liquefied natural gas (LNG) project to resume development "this summer", CEO Patrick Pouyanne said on Wednesday, 18 June 2025. He was asked about the timing during a session at the Japan Energy Summit in...

Endangered KZN black rhinos relocated to Mozambique
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment says the move is in an effort to protect South Africa’s rhinos. Officials are now reintroducing them into safe habitats to boost breeding and restore ecosystems. The translocation of five males...

Zim’s powerful music of the struggle
IN April of 1980, when Bob Marley arrived to headline the independence celebrations that would see Rhodesia become Zimbabwe, his song, Zimbabwe, the centrepiece of the Survival album, was the most popular foreign song in the country. Marley, whose...

Soldiers demand Mozambique allowances
Moorosi Tsiane TENSIONS are mounting among the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF)’s ranks as soldiers who participated in the Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) and are now demanding payment of their long-overdue...

ANALYSIS | Mozambique Beats Hunger, Malawi Sinks; 8 Million Starving Despite Billions in FISP
As neighbouring Mozambique celebrates its removal from the United Nations’ Hunger Hotspot list following a successful harvest, Malawi remains gripped by a worsening hunger crisis — with 8 million citizens on the brink of starvation and no clear...
#5019, Music for Bass Clarinet
The rich, woody, earthy sound of the bass clarinet takes center stage with electroacoustic music by Canadian Alison Burik, motoric meditative music by Swiss jazzers BLAER led by composer and pianist Maja Nydegger; in music by the improvising trio...

TotalEnergies Expects Mozambique LNG Restart This Summer
The Mozambique LNG project should resume operation “this summer”, the chief executive of the facility’s operator, TotalEnergies, told media this week. The Mozambique LNG project—which is under construction—suspended activities in 2021 under force...